Our final stop was in Hawaii where we hired a car and spent 8 days travelling around Oahu.
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Our final stop was in Hawaii where we hired a car and spent 8 days travelling around Oahu.
Another visit to the Happiest Place on Earth : )
In LA we stayed at Santa Monica and watched the LA Lakers basketball game.
Our drive from Morro Bay to Santa Monica took us through Cambria, San Luis Obispo, Los Olivos, and Santa Barbara.
Another stay at Morro Bay to see the amazing Sea Otters, and to collect some sand dollars.
We rented a car in San Francisco and headed off down the Californian coast and along the Big Sur highway.
Flew from New York to San Francisco to take in the New Years Eve fireworks display along the Embarcadero near Fishermans Wharf.
We flew out of Paris and arrived in New York late on Christmas Eve.
Tucumcari, New Mexico / USA – April 18 2019: The Blue Swallow and other views of historic route 66 in New Mexico
Back to New York for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, and High Tea at Tiffany.
Follow our journey on Polarsteps as we travel through Canada, cruise the Caribbean, drive across the US in an RV, then wind down In beautiful Belize.
We returned to New York City, and before flying out to Ireland we took in an ice hockey game and watched the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
Before heading back to our final destination of New York, we stopped in Philadelphia and got to take a close up look at the famous Liberty Bell.
Washington DC and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
We travelled through Lancaster County and to the Amish settlements of Intercourse and Bird in Hand.
We travelled down through Pennsylvania and took in the haunting battlefields of Gettysburg.
We took in the sights of the Niagara Falls from the top of the revolving restaurant, and then ventured to the bottom of them on the Maid of the Mist boat. We then stayed on the USA side of the falls at Buffalo.
Toronto was a mix of the old and the new, with lots of new buildings built over and around the old ones.
We drove through the Thousand Islands region, straddling the border between Canada and the USA.
Continuing from Montreal, we entered the state of Ontario and onto Ottawa, the capital city of Canada.
After leaving Quebec City we drove to Montreal.
Leaving the New England region in the USA we travelled across the border and into Canada, and to Quebec City.
We departed New York City and travelled up the coast and into Maine, and to the beautiful little seaside town of Kennebunkport.
Our tour of Eastern USA and Canada commenced in New York City.
San Francisco was our final stop on our Western USA tour. The Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, and Fisherman’s Wharf.
Traveling through Nevada, there was the contrast of the glitz of Las Vegas, and then the desolate Death Valley. Yosemite National Park then brought everything back in balance.
Still in Utah, we explored Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park.
Leaving Arizona we entered the state of Utah and the amazing Monument Valley.
Continuing on through Arizona, our next stop was to the southern rim of the Grand Canyon.
We left San Diego and travelled through Southern California and into Arizona. We spent a few days in Scottsdale and then Sedona.
Heading to San Diego we had a few fun days at Disneyland, and then a day at Sea World.
Los Angeles was the start of our South West USA tour, where we traveled through the states of California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada.
Our final stay on our way to Calgary was at Banff where we wandered around the banks of the rivers and explored the national park.
We stayed at the magnificent Chateau Lake Louise, with it’s views over the turquoise waters of the lake, and the surrounding snow capped mountains.
We ventured onto the Athabasca Glacier at the Columbia Icefields.
Jasper National Park - beautiful lakes, an abundance of wildlife, and the largest Moose we’ve ever seen.
Traveling through the Canadian Rockies by train from Whistler to Prince George saw some stunning scenery.
When there’s no snow for skiing, Whistler Blackcomb becomes a world-class mountain biking course.
We returned to Vancouver, and the start of our bus and train journey throughout Western Canada.
Fairbanks, and Santa Claus House at the real North Pole.
We rode the McKinley Explorer with our destination, the Denali National Park.
Our Inside Passage cruise finished in Anchorage, which then became the start of our train journey throughout Alaska.
We entered Glacier Bay and sailed right up close to the massive Hubbard Glacier.
The wildlife and scenery around Sitka was stunning, and it was our first introduction to Sea Otters.
At Skagway we rode the Whitehorse Rail into the outskirts of the Yukon.
Juneau, the little known capital of Alaska, and the gateway to the Mendenhall Glacier.
Our first stop on our Holland America cruise through the Inside Passage was to the beautiful little town of Ketchikan.
Vancouver was where we embarked on our Inside Passage cruise to Alaska aboard the ms Statendam
A short flight from Hobart to Melbourne, then a long Business Class flight to LA, then another long flight down to Peru in South America.
